Listen in as Sir Elton sits down with Jim Kerr to talk about his life at the time, the making of the album, his thoughts on it 40 years later and much more – all in the iHeartRadio Celebration of the 40th anniversary of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road with Elton John!

Young Croatian cellists Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser, together known as 2CELLOS, have achieved sensational success by taking the cello to a new level. Their playing style has broken down the boundaries between different genres of music, from classical and film music to pop and rock. 2CELLOS have no limits when it comes to performing live and are equally as impressive when playing Bach and Vivaldi as they are when rocking out, as evidenced in the recent mind-blowing clip of their version of the AC/DC track Thunderstruck.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is regarded as one of Elton John’s most significant albums of his career, and 41 years after it was first released in 1973, this seminal album is getting re-imagined by today’s contemporary artists.

Celebrating its 40th anniversary right about now, Elton John’s ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road’ remains the British artist’s most enduring LP, a critically acclaimed collection that also more than tickled the pop charts, spawning two top-10 hits in the UK – ‘Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting’ and the title track – and seeing ‘Candle In The Wind’ peak one short at 11.

Russell, 71, is in the midst of a career Indian summer. While it may not rival his 1970s heyday, Russell scored a Billboard number-three and Grammy nomination in 2010 with The Union, his collaboration with uber-fan Elton John, and releases Life Journey, helmed by famed jazz producer Tommy LiPuma, who helped break Diana Krall as a star and recently produced Paul McCartney's Grammy-winning Kisses on the Bottom, April 1 on Universal Music Enterprises.

John Grant: Over time Elton and I had started to develop a friendship; I’d got in touch through Mike [Elton’s former personal assistant] and we just started connecting over email and over the phone. And then he simply asked me if I would like to be a part of this. I can’t actually remember if he asked me personally or if it was one of his people, but I was just delighted. It’s a huge thing for me…it doesn’t even seem real. And it’s very daunting; I really don’t feel that I can bring much to the table when it comes to his material, especially when it comes to that album which was a giant album for me growing up.

Las Vegas, the city of spectacle, is the perfect host-city for Elton John's most recent set-show, "The Million Dollar Piano." This sensory feast replaced Elton John's former show, "The Red Piano" at Caesars Palace. Its seemly extravagant title is in fact an understatement. Decked out with video panels along the body of the instrument, the million dollar piano actually cost 1.4 million dollars to create. Beyond the piano, the venue is also fitted with dozens of high definition screens, spotlights, and, of course, a host of talented musicians.

Elton John's newest album The Diving Board is about as far away from hip-hop as you can get, but that doesn't mean Captain Fantastic's longstanding fascination with the genre has died down. He's been thinking about somehow incorporating hip-hop beats into his music for years and even had recording time booked with Eminem in 2006, though he had the misfortune of landing in Detroit for the session on the very day that Em's best friend and mentor Proof passed away.

Woodside, Old Windsor, England, the morning after the owner of the house has picked up the first of two awards in as many days. Last evening, Sir Elton John performed a televised show at the London Palladium, where he collected the inaugural Brits Icon award. Later today, he'll leave his Berkshire estate again, to pick up the Genius award at GQ's Men Of The Year ceremony. But first he has a little celebrating to do: an exclusive GQ photo shoot in his private art gallery to mark the very close personal and professional relationship he has enjoyed over the past 30 years with the London jeweller Theo Fennell.

The special Q & A screening of Super Duper Alice Cooper - a film that blends archive footage, animation and interviews with Elton John, Iggy Pop and John Lydon - is set for April 28 at this year's Hot Docs film festival.

To celebrate today's cinema release of Elton John's The Million Dollar Piano, Entertainment Tonight, in conjunction with Fathom Events, Caesars Palace and Yamaha Entertainment Group of America, is giving you the chance to win a personalized Yamaha Keyboard signed by Elton John, along with a selection of Elton's CDs and DVDs! Enter below for your chance to win.

The Undercover King of Pop: He made more than $2.5 million writing songs last year but doesn't know it. Now OneRepublic's lead singer, who claims to never check his money, is music's most prolific writer/producer.

Today we are talking to the founder and Vice President of Yamaha Entertainment Group who single-handedly spearheaded the incentive to create a one-of-a-kind work of pianistic art for iconic Grammy and Tony Award-winning rock legend Elton John to utilize in a spectacular new concert experience called THE MILLION DOLLAR PIANO - the passionate and dedicated Chris Gero.

Elton John was on a historic roll when he traveled to France in early 1973 to make what would become one of rock's great double albums. He'd scored seven Top 40 singles in the previous two years, and Don't Shoot Me I’m Only the Piano Player had just topped the album charts. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road somehow managed to become even bigger than everything that came before, selling more than thirty million records and topping the album charts for an incredible eight weeks. Elton John has been a superstar for nearly forty-five years, but this was the peak.

Neil Young's PonoPlayer high fidelity music player Kickstarter project has smashed through its backing goals within hours of its launch. At the time of writing the PonoPlayer device has received pledges of $2.4m – three times the goal of $800,000 when the project was launched on Tuesday.

Thursday, March 6, 2014

Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John and Stevie Wonder are among the many stars who appear in a new PBS special that puts a spotlight on the legendary 1960s British band The Dave Clark Five. The two-hour show, The Dave Clark Five and Beyond — Glad All Over, will premiere next month as an episode of the PBS series Great Performances.

Engelbert Humperdinck decided to do an album of duets -- a two-disc, 23-track duets set with Elton John, Smokey Robinson, Il Divo, Willie Nelson, Kiss' Gene Simmons, Wynonna Judd and more -- for one simple reason: He'd never done it before.

The 22nd annual Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards Viewing Party hosted by Elton and David Furnish raised $5.1 million for the fight against HIV/AIDS. The gala, which took place on Sunday, March 2, at West Hollywood Park in Los Angeles, was co-sponsored by Chopard, Neuro Drinks, and Wells Fargo; American Airlines serves as the Foundation’s official sponsoring airline.

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